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I love seeing KL and Esther and happy she's getting a little more to do on Y&R lately, but I can't help but wonder who over at B&B was like..."I've got an idea! Why don't we bring Esther over for a few episodes!" I'm not complaining, but just wondering how did THAT happen?!

Abby is so isolated from the Newmans that I forget she's Victor's daughter at times. It would make sense if one of the siblings at least reached out to Abby with their concerns, right?! IMO, Abby has been written as more Abbott than Newman. She rarely interacts with the Newmans at all. I personally think the show needs an Adam break. It's the same story over and over again. I would say rest the character and bring him back in a few years with a fresh perspective.

ITA. Audra is one of the highlights on the show for me, mostly due to the actress and how she elevates the material she's given. You never quite know whose side Audra is really on, perhaps just her own! It would be fascinating to find out what in her past made her to be the woman that she. The actress is Latina, and I think it would be wise for the writer's to slowly build a family around her and add more diversity. Newmans and Abbotts have married each other so many times that they're practically one family now.

I love that Esther is going to be there, but it feels so...random? Lauren makes sense, of course.

My hunch is that Eric will win the fashion show down but then collapses on stage.

I'll be so mad if that happens. Sadly, too, there's hardly any Hortons left in town. In the last few years so many of them have been written out or put on recurring (Jennifer, Hope, Lucas, Will, Eli, Abby, JJ, Claire, Ciara). Who's even left at this point? Sarah? Maggie (Horton by marriage)? Julie (on recurring)? To me, the Hortons have always been the heart of the show. Even during JER's crazy supernatural years, he actually beefed up the Horton family on the canvas. I feel the current regime has focused SO MUCH on the Dimeras and stories that are beyond over the top and ludicrous that most other characters/ families have fallen by the wayside. It's one of the reasons I finally tuned out for the most part. For Nicole, this would be a "change of life" baby as they used to say about a mother who has probably already started menopause at this point!

If they completely destroy that set, it would be such a slap in the face of long-time fans. I've been mostly tuned out the past year. I only went back to watch some of the Victor's death episodes. DAYS has always been a little nuts, especially since JER, but it just feels like DAYS bad fan-fiction now.

As soon as I saw Liam on my screen Friday, I thought..."Oh, crap. He's back." The character has become SOOO unrootable.

I agree. All the Newman stuff feels like "been there, done that" about ten times. Victoria/Nate is the only part I am remotely interested in.

Who is Liam going to talk to in circles about how Steffy is his true love or the fact that Hope kissed Thomas?

Not a surprise. The show is so hyper-focused on a handful of characters there's no room for half the cast to do anything.

I'm liking Li being in all bitch mode. I mean, you can't blame her for hating Sheila. Sheila tried to kill her son! I still wish they'd hook her up with Bill.

This would have a made A LOT more sense that what we did get for the story.

This would make a lot more sense versus "my sister has an affair while working in the gift shop."

I think I'm still stunned that we actually got THREE storylines in one episode today: Hope & Thomas' toxic mess, RJ/Luna/Li, and the whole head scratching Deacon/Sheila thing. We've been getting episodes with at least two stories for a good bit of the writer's strike. It makes the show SO MUCH better to watch because if you're not into one story, there's still others being featured. I don't why the show can be structured like this every episode. My fear is that when BB's material starts airing again since the strike is done, we'll go back to one storyline at a time that dominates every minute of every episode and usually has to do with Steffy/Hope/Liam with Ridge and Brooke thrown in. I cringe at just the thought of all those episodes that were just Liam and Wyatt repeating the same exact dialogue in that office over and over again.

If I'm not mistaken, this is when the 88 writer's strike happened just as Harding Lemay was getting started again. I would have loved to see what he would have done long-term. Although I believe, not sure if it's confirmed, that a lot of Donna Swajeski's material at the beginning was based on long-story already written by Lemay.

I feel like we've seen Nick and Adam fighting over the same woman waaay too many times. It would have been so much more interesting if it had been a Nick/Sally/NOAH triangle. I feel like Rory Gibson (not to mention the character of Allie) was never given a real chance. I think they keep trying to do "younger" stories with Nick and not letting the character mature, so there's not much of a place for Noah.

It still mystifies me why they let Rena go from B&B. The storyline with Carter was one of the most interesting one the show had done in years IMO. I really like the actress that plays Li. So, I hope this means we'll keep seeing more of her. I don't know why the show dropped the potential story of her and Bill becoming an item.

The Abbotts are far more interesting to me. The Newman drama feels like we've seen it a thousand times. Everyone complaining about Adam, for example. Nate and Victoria are the only somewhat interesting part to me, and that's entirely because of Nate. The whole Nick/Sally/Adam is a snoozefest for me which is a shame since I like CH, but she's gotten saddled by this story.

Yeah, there definitely is some sort of twist coming with Claire. I'm kind of not minding her as a new character and most Newman-focused shows I FF through.

Yeah, the whole "secret" just doesn't make any sense. Why would Li feel this passionately about Luna working at Forrester?

Yeah, that was pretty anti-climatic. The big secret is Li doesn't like her sister?! I was expecting something WAY bigger than that.

I was hoping Elena would take a turn to the dark side, too. She could have become obsessed with destroying Nate and Victoria AND winning back Devon by breaking up his relationship with Abby. But, it looks like the character will just fade away.

I have to admit to being SLIGHTLY intrigued as to what is Luna's backstory.

People are ALWAYS drinking on this show. The only time it's not alcohol is when they're drinking coffee at Crimson Lights.